“Global methodes and genome-based approaches to study bacterial and fungal human pathogens”

Kick-off Meeting in Cologne, 13^th / 14^th March 2007

1^st Status Seminar in Paris, 7^th April 2008

• Interview Prof. Hacker + Dr. Dobrindt
• Interview Prof. Maaß
• Interview Prof. Meyer
• Interview Prof. Pla

Funded Projects of the 1^st joint call:

Project No.	(Short) Title Please click on the project title to get the project summary	Project Leader/ Coordinator	Project Partners
7	Parasite and host genetic diversity in Helicobacter infections (HELDIVNET)	Sebastian Suerbaum	Mark Achtman Christine Josenhans Rainer Haas Agnès Labigne Marja-Liisa Hanninen José Carlos Machado
8	Pneumocystis Pathogenomics: unravelling the Colonization-to-Disease shift	Eduardo Dei-Cas	Enrique F. Calderón Melanie T. Cushion
18	Genomic Approaches to Unravel the Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenicity in the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida glabrata - FunPath	Karl Kuchler	Christophe d’Enfert Dominique Ferrandon Steffen Rupp Bernhard Hube Toni Gabaldón
23	Exploring Protein Secretion within the bacterial biofilm matrix. Acronym: EPS-Matrix	Jean-Marc GHIGO	Thierry Jouenne Alain Filloux Iñigo Lasa José R Penades
24	Glycoshield: Surface Modulation of the Fungal & Host Response using a Genomic Approach	JESUS PLA	Joachim F. Ernst Guilhem Janbon Steffen Rupp Daniel Poulain Angel Dominguez Claude Gaillardin
25	Large scale screening of potential key factors involved in the commensalism / virulence transition of Enterococcus faecalis	Axel Hartke	Yanick Auffray Pascale Serror Maria de Fátima Silva Lopes Johannes Huebner Bruno Gonzales-Zorn
27	Systematic analyses of kinase and phosphatase function in morphological, environmental, and virulence responses of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans	Robert Arkowitz	Joachim Morschhäuser Daniel Kornitzer
30	European Initiative to Fight Chlamydial Infections by Unbiased Genomics - ECIBUG -	Matthias Maass	Georg Wick Mirja Puolakkainen Pia Vuorela Agathe Subtil Jens Gieffers Georg Häcker Johannes H. Hegemann Thomas F. Meyer
33	A comparative molecular analysis of GAS and GBS pathogenesis	Patrick TRIEU-CUOT	Philippe Glaser Bernd Kreikemeyer Andreas Podbielski Emanuel Hanski Richard Muench
36	Deciphering the intersection of commensal and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli	Jörg Hacker	Jürgen Heesemann Sören Schubert Helge Karch M. Alexander Schmidt Till Bachmann Maryvonne Moulin-Schouleur Philippe Gilot Eric Oswald Chantal LeBouguénec Benita Westerlund-Wikström Eliora Ron Levente Emödy Tibor Pál Bela Nagy István Tóth Catharina Svanborg Bernt Eric Uhlin Sun Nyunt Wai
37	A global RNAi approach to unravel eukaryotic host functions that modulate bacterial infections (acronym RNAi-Net)	Thomas F. Meyer	Matthias Maass Mikael Skurnik Pascale Cossart David O'Callaghan Martin Aepfelbacher Ingo B. Autenrieth Ilan Rosenshine Céu Figueiredo José Antonio Bengoechea Francisco García-del Portillo Jean-Pierre Gorvel Didier Raoult Philippe Sansonetti Jürgen Heesemann Michael Hensel
42	SPATELIS - “Spatio-temporal analysis of Listeria-host protein interactions” Link to Homepage	Trinad Chakraborty Pascale Cossart	Jürgen Wehland Jürgen Kreft Michael Kuhn Dagmar Beier Pascale Cossart (Co -coordinator) Franscisco Garcia -del Portillo Mariela Scortti Didier Cabanes Yair Aharonowitz Roded Sharan